The group had alerted the Speaker of Parliament in a letter dated December 2 2015 of the legislators’ absence.

According to it, it decided to head to court because “the Speaker of Parliament failed to acknowledge receipt of our letter and he also failed to honour our request to declare the seats of the defaulting MPs vacant. Consequently, we have instructed our lawyers to file a suit at the High Court asking the court to declare the seats of the 21 worst-offending MPs vacant.”